As he shifted fairly uncomfortably in front of the BT Sport cameras Jurgen Klopp was perhaps waiting for the bait to come.
The Liverpool manager has, of course, clashed with interviewer Des Kelly before, and he looked as though he was on the precipice of doing so again in the moments before one of the tougher tests on this relentless run-in.
Kelly was kind though, opting not to mention the elephant in the room of the 12.30 kick-off 62 hours after the first leg of the Champions League semi-final against Villarreal had ended.